This mightn't be the best time to post about an article I've written about the massacre that took place at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando earlier this summer. It's already been a monumentally tough week, hasn't it? But the article was published by Dancecult earlier today and I can't not mention it.

I spent half of my summer holiday preparing for book launch events and the other half writing this article, sneaking in an hour or two at the beach when I reached my limit. By the end of the holiday I was shattered. What can I say? There was no way I could step back from the book events and I felt as though "Life and Death on the Pulse Dance Floor" needed to be written.

The article questions some widely accepted assumptions about the massacre, highlights the importance of focusing on the specificity of the Latinx queer dancers who were murdered, and argues that the response to the massacre suggests a wider need to recognise the contribution of the queer Latinx community, including in writing about dance music culture.

The register of the writing is a little more formal than the writing in my books but my hope is that it makes its points clearly. Many thanks in particular to Graham St John, the ever-dedicated editor at Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture for supporting the effort.